Discover Birds! Changing Populations and Birds Champions

These activities were developed for grades 4-6. Math is for the birds! Use real data from the
North American Breeding Bird Survey
to find out what's happening to Tennessee populations of Eastern Bluebird, Wild Turkey and Northern Bobwhite over time. In a second activity, practice solving some arithmetic problems to discover which North American birds are the tallest, fastest, and more!
Both activities, designed by NIMBioS, appeared in the
Discover Birds Activity Book published in 2012
sponsored by the
Tennessee Ornithological Society (TOS)
and the
Knoxville Chapter of TOS.
Illustrations are by
Vickie Henderson. Note that all material is copyrighted but may be reproduced for educational and not-for-profit use with attribution.

NIMBioS is sponsored by the
National Science Foundation
through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.